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ad in his which he

north of

ary—had

à point la cted form

g except Wveevery-

rself__5.e., not urged han they

Pace 85.

Line 1.—Adélaide The diæresis, called tréma in French, shows that the vowel over which it is placed forms g separate syllable from the vowel which precedes it,

le nœud &c,—The bond which is touniteus—Nœud from Latin nodus.

Line 3.—l’un à l’autre__To each other.

Line 4.—peut-être n’avez-vous point— Peut.étre is one of those adverbs which at the beginning of a sentence require the subject to come after the verb. The others are ainsi, alors, à peine, après, déjà, ici, là, &e.

Line 6.—prôné—Eulogized—prôner is literally to preach, from prône, sermon.

Line 7 —fasse—]Imperative of fatre.

Line 9.—I1 est encore temps-T',ere is still time.

Line 10.—dites—Observe difference of conjugation between this verb and most of its compounds, in second pers. plural, present indic., and imper.

Line 17.—l'Etre créateur—The Creator.

Line 20.—savourait—Enjoyed—literally, tasted.

Line 22.—Robespierre-—Born in 1759, educated as an advocate, one of the few extreme Revolutionists who had a seat in the States-General. He soon became the chief the Parisian demagogues, and at last stood at the head of the most frightful Dictatorship Europe ever saw. Opinions are still divided as to whether he was a mere blood-thirsty tyrant, or à merciless fanatic. Carlyle thus graphically describes him: * Who of these Six Hundred may be the meanest? Shall we say that anxious, slight, ineffectuallooking man, under thirty, in spectacles ; his eyes (were the glasses off) vroubled, careful; with up-turned face, snuffing dimly the uncertain future times ? ”

“6 il faut le dire—And we must add.

Line 28.—à titre de récompense-As à reward.

Line 32.—c’est à lui &c.—It was to him that they (the Committee) preferred to entrust.

Line 34.—enlevé à—See Note, p. 19, L 28.

Line 85.—fit à son armée &c.—Badehis army a touching farewell.

Pace 86.

Line 8.—vous ne pouvez &c.—You cannot fail to annihilate. Line 5.—La République &c.—This was the formal or official designation of the Republic during the Revolution,

Line 7.—H ne s’abusnit &c—He was not deceived, however, as to, &ec.

Line 9.-—et prêt de—And when on the point of setting out—Distinguish prét à, on the point of, from prét de, disposed to.

Line 11.—à faire luire &c.—To bring the truth to light—literaliy —to cause the truth to shine forth, -

Line 12.—et à retracer &c.—And to indicate to our descendants. Neveu has this sense only in the plural.

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